Well, bless my soul, but BBC stalwart David Attenborough – having moved to Sky – has attacked the BBC for becoming too big, claiming its ‘sails need to be trimmed’.
He said the corporation needed to be ‘refocused’ and had ‘strayed from the straight and narrow’. Sir David, who recently presented his first show for Sky, said it was vital that the licence fee-funded BBC represented ‘the highest aspirations of our society’.
Well, I don’t think much of this. Of course the bloated BBC is too big, and of course it has strayed away from the original intent. But sails do not need to be trimmed, as he puts it. The vessel needs sunk. Further, the “license-fee” is an anachronistic obscenity which must end now.